Forbes, Cox pay blogs to run anti-gay-marriage ads

[Newsjock]

Source: Valleywag

Forbes.com, the online arm of the right-wing business magazine, is offering to pay blogs to run a political ad supporting a ban on gay marriage. The price: $2.85 per thousand pageviews.

The ad advocates the passage of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative. The blogs in question are part of Forbes's Business and Financial Blog Network, an online-ad network which places ads sold by Forbes salespeople on independent sites. The network itself is run by Adify, an ad-technology company now owned by Cox, the media-and-cable-TV conglomerate.

The ad won't run automatically, according to an email from Sharon Gitelle, who's listed on Forbes.com as a "membership" contact; bloggers must specifically choose it. Politics aside, a $2.85 CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, is nothing to sneeze at in these tough economic times.

Read more: http://valleywag.com/5072908/forbes-cox-pay-blogs-to-run-anti+gay+marriage-ads

[Barack4Ever]

1. nope

THIS ISNT RIGHT

People should have the right to mary whomever they choose, choice is paramount.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Deflation

"Politics aside, a $2.85 CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, is nothing to sneeze at in these tough economic times."

$2.85, marked down from 40 pieces of silver.

[justiceischeap]

3. Funny enough, I used to work for a Cox company in PA

and our insurance covered same-sex couples. Go figure...

[Ian David]

5. If every company in CA *had* to cover same-sex couples in their insurance...

... then Forbes wouldn't be able to lure qualified gay people to work for them by offering same-sex coverage.

[TomClash]

4. That's funny

Forbes is located in the West Village in part because, its founder, Steve Forbes' daddy Malcolm, used to troll for gay sex there.

[David__77]

6. Wasn't Malcolm Forbes a gay leather daddy?

Just sayin'...